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Rut 4:3

Lalu berkatalah ia kepada penebus itu: "Tanah milik kepunyaan saudara kita Elimelekh hendak dijual oleh Naomi, yang telah pulang dari daerah Moab.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commerce;   Court;   Daughter;   Dowry;   Elimelech;   Government;   Heir;   Land;   Marriage;   Redemption;   Witness;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Elimelech;   Land;   Real Estate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Names;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Elder;   Redemption;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elder;   Leadership;   Redeem, Redemption;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Elimelech;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cities and Urban Life;   Court Systems;   Economic Life;   Elimelech;   Judge (Office);   Levirate Law, Levirate Marriage;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Boaz;   Marriage;   Sabbatical Year;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elders;   Elimelech ;   Gate;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Kinsman;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'omi;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Go'el;   Ruth, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 17;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah ia kepada penebus itu: "Tanah milik kepunyaan saudara kita Elimelekh hendak dijual oleh Naomi, yang telah pulang dari daerah Moab.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah itu maka katanya kepada penebus itu: Adapun sepotong tanah yang Elimelekh, saudara kita, punya, ia itu sudah dijual oleh Naomi, yang telah kembali dari negeri orang Moab.

Contextual Overview

1 Then went Booz vp to the gate, and sat him downe there: and beholde, the kinsman of which Booz spake, came by, vnto whom, he sayde: Ho, suche one, come, sit downe here. And he turned, & sat downe. 2 And he toke ten men of the elders of the citie, and said: sit ye downe here. And they sat downe. 3 And he sayd vnto the kinsman: Naomi that is come agayne out of the countrey of Moab, will sel a parcell of lande, which was our brother Elimelechs. 4 And I thought to do thee to wyt, and byd the bye it before thee inhabitauntes and elders of my people. If thou wilt redeeme it, redeeme it: but & if thou wilt not redeeme it, then tell me, that I may knowe: For there is none to redeeme it, saue thou, and I next thee. And the other aunswered: I will redeeme it. 5 Then sayd Booz: What day thou biest the fielde of the hande of Naomi, thou must bye it also of Ruth the Moabite the wyfe of the dead, to stirre vp the name of the dead vpon his inheritaunce. 6 The kinsman aunswered: I can not redeeme it, for marring of myne owne inheritaunce: redeeme thou my right to thee, for I cannot redeeme it. 7 Nowe this was the maner of olde time in Israel concerning redeeming & chaunging, for to stablishe al thing: that a man must plucke of his shoe, & geue it his neyghbour: And this was a sure witnesse in Israel. 8 Therfore the kinsman sayde to Booz, Bye it thou: and so drue of his shoe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he said: Psalms 112:5, Proverbs 13:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 27:11 - kinsman

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.
Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Numbers 18:12
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.
1 Kings 17:7
And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.
Nehemiah 13:6
But in all this time was not I at Hierusalem: for in the two and thirtie yere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, & after certayne dayes obtayned I licence of the king to come to Hierusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto the kinsman,.... That is, Boaz said to the kinsman he called to, and who sat down by him before the ten elders that were present:

Naomi, that is come again out of the land of Moab, selleth a parcel of land; meaning, that she was determined upon it, and was about to do it, and would do it quickly, and he had it in commission to propose it to a purchaser:

which was our brother Elimelech's; not in a strict sense, but being akin to the kinsman and himself, and having been a neighbour of them all, and an inhabitant of the place, he is called their brother; though some Jewish writers f say, that he was in a strict sense a brother of Boaz and this kinsman, and that Tob, Elimelech, and Boaz, were brethren, and so Tob was reckoned the nearest kinsman, and had the first right to redeem, because he was the elder brother but this does not seem likely; :-.

f Midrash Ruth, fol. 34. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

According to the law Leviticus 25:25-28, if any Israelite, through poverty, would sell his possession, the next of kin (the גאל gā'al) had a right to redeem it by paying the value of the number of years remaining until the jubilee (see the marginal reference). This right Boaz advertises the גאל gā'al of, so as to give him the option which the law secured to him of redeeming “our brother Elimelech’s” land, i. e. our kinsman’s, according to the common use of the term brother, for near relation (see Genesis 13:8; Genesis 24:27; Leviticus 25:25; Numbers 27:4; Judges 9:1).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 4:3. Naomi - selleth a parcel of land — She was reduced to want; the immediate inheritors were extinct, and it was now open for the next heir to purchase the land, and thus preserve the inheritance in the family according to the custom of Israel.


 
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